Andy Walls is Chief Architect and CTO for IBM’s Flash Systems. He is also an IBM Fellow, IBM’s most prestigious Honor. Andy is a pioneer in enabling MLC, TLC and QLC flash into the enterprise and has shaped the IBM storage portfolio to be highly differentiated and popular. He was responsible for the Texas Memory Acquisition and defined the architecture for the very popular Flash System 840 and 900 as well as Flash Core modules. He leads the architecture and definition of the Entire FlashSystems NVMe product portfolio including FS 5200, 7300, 9500. He is defining next generation products that can be used in Hybrid Cloud environments. Known as an innovator, he has applied for or filed over 150 patents. Andy has worked for IBM his entire 40-year career.